The Sun. — London, England, 1826-09-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A Proprietor of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Associa . tiOn, appearing rather sore at the state of his corn:ern, and it, the comments which our sense of duty led us to make upon the conduct of it, as reported in the newspapers, has written ut; a long letter, Of which we cannot at once per ceive the object, unless it.be to promote the loan of money to the Company, failing the " call" upon its members. Now, hush% no en of ill-will to the Association, no to the individuals forming it, we shall content ourselves with hoping, that those of onr. countrymen ~ who may be in , dined to assist its tottering AOMICeS, Will inquire a little from well-informed persons, before they embark the whole of their property in any such distant undertaking. Out Cotre.spondent is angry that we have applied the term " loss" to what was in reality but an outlay of half a mil lion or more. it, is never worth while to quarrel about tvords, hut we are not the less convinced that an outlay whit•li presents no definite prospect of renimieration, fact, to a "to s," and nothing better. As for the dispute Whether or not au enterprise like this be or bc not of " a commercial" maitre, we shall not waste our time or space by discussing it, " Mineralogical spe culation" we shall call ,it, if our correspondent wills; but the truth is, that the .shareholders thought they were embarking in a commercial adventure, and in nothing else, The declared purpose of the. Company was, not to open . new Toltet, but simply to work the ohl ones, which, had long been known .to yield silver, but, might have beet] abandoned thr6ugh the troubles of the revolution. The author of the letter admits broadly the substance of our at cuSation against the Manag,ers of the Company, which was, that they had proceeded on a scale fur inure than com mensurate with their resources, when he states that they had spread their operations too largely, and that the Di. rectors were of the same opinion, for they " bad. SUS " pandod the working of:several of their mines," . A mer chant, or a body of merchants, rtvly be as fairly ruined by a rash extension of Own: eittcrprkoi, ces ,by the injuditions choice of them ; and this pal tieular defect. of sobriety and ilk cretion we contend th e n, !lie )irceters Of 'Anghi-Mexican Minio;Compeny have . A eeording to the report of last January, the association had ;(s l uiced possession 4A no les* than thirty-one mines,• or of the principal shores in them ; und,the public may judge of the degree in which the am bition or tippet eney of the Directors bad out-stripped their tnenne, from the fact of orders having recently been issued to abandon till but eight or nine of those which promised to he most. productive. Are we not then justified in pro., bouncing the capital which was employed upon a large number of mines now abandoned, as so dead loss to the Company ? But we are told of a lien, or mortgage upon an abandoned mine, being vested in him who hest laud alit, his capital upon it, A mortgage upon it. mine jn Mexico I "'Odd's frenzies," a mortgage on the enemnber. works 'of Lapvita! A pretty hold over tine's motel. , thiS to • have the pinalege of commenting some twenty or '01i:!:ty Chancery suits, to be carried On against Mexican tittjeets, and heard before Mexican judges, amongst the , Not/hero •Andes. It is tgogress a humbug--better jump headlong down the mine et once. But.---to measure the • wisdom of these gentlemen by their undertakings—it i. • known that to work a single mine only, with kildliCiela vigour—we mean the great Valenciun mine—would have required the whole sum which has yet been raised by the Company. ' A fact of each inqaortanee ought surely to hai , e been ascertained at the outset, after not left for u tartly and quo:010113 confeasion, when the directors find that the patience of their constituents •is worn out, and, that no more cash will be forthcoming. conclude the subject with an apology for having given it so much space in our columns; but it isa viduableobjeet to pot the mania down, end to save, for national and attainable end.;, what remains of our pettonitay resources.—Timer, We publish a:timer! of " the creature" Verdinronl, in which he' modestly wAines his " that lie will protect thole Of them who obey 'the laws, and be in flexible with those who do. not; that he repeats his pi o, retiree of April, 1824 i, never to permit the legal folio of hi:. Government to be changed..—" never to permit the esta blishment-of Chambers, or any other institutiome what ever might be their denomination," Be alludes to the .promulgation of a representative system of Government. in Portugel, but asserts that public .opinion among the Spaniards, has declared decidedly against it. Now, in the first place . ,' when this poor animal is made. to talk about offering . hisionteetion to his vassals, or to ney bodtelse, 'would' it not . be worth the while of his Ministers, or of the monk . who confesses him, to remember how very ridi cidonattre-such phrases its the month of one who, instead of. extendinie proteutimi to his -vaitsals,. is compelled to seek, it against those very vassals, by rettking a band of foreign mercenaries, poi& by a foreign Ake ; in the heart of .What ,:.he terms his ,dotninions—without which degrading and disgusting check upon his own people, lie would either be forced to run away within an hour, or be hanged Over the palace ale? The next piece of nonsense in this,deelara tion, is x er promise" from Verifier-Old (an assurance from such a Matt !) that be will suffer no changes in the Cro vernment. Why, how many times did he swear on former occasion*, that he would make elinges, or would adhere to those which took place in spite of his oppoaition. When he i-etinned to Spirit). 0314, he assured the na tion that the ancient Cortes should be revised ; that the liberties of the..kingAlorn which his ancestors had over- . tented, ohonhl be restored ;aod that he wottld not be any longer 'sirh'at he new pledgeit himself to continue---alt ob. solute Molten+ over Spain. That first promise being broke - 4am" the breach of it succeeded by. its course of me. principle& oppressions, leading to the revolution of the Isla in 1820, ..Perdimual " promised," nay, swore upon the; Evangelists, that he would' maintain the overthrow of the legal form of his Government," and the integrity of the new institutions, New he proclaims again, with equal quack gravity, that .he will • never. suffer arty of . those ; changes to which he so often antecedently declared We t ad... hereof:el What humiliating childishness such a state paper 'from such to source, when all mankind know that if a ' boy of ten years Old were to. iift to Cudgel and threaten to beat thi, dought v autocrat over so many" vassals," the cal.' tiff woeld fill Min hymen sweat With fear; would promise whatever emeti..leattec was rceeired of him ay, and take 166 oult to it. "Filial, for the teitutwr in whii:h the H.,„„ of tfle I'mt"g"" , “- , o )ft-dilution den laser( received in Wt , have ghiutal for givino.• :t tint twtradiction to Ferdi nand, Millen. lie says that opiniOn lois pronounced against it. The, truth i, that opinion Nv4s s i manifest in its favour, that '"o hopc, and moticti coseputulation . among in, wi-v exhibited at the coriar of every sitcct, Luel nu th is bitietmy (4 every 'as to fill the inlet , a thi, with perplexity, aid to caiie stn ini-rference by the pttfict e ilta~teal they itiouid seize inly Spaniards tube; two. a . y „ f t In th momt „," . ., w ho it: that encircle the King of Spain andhis capital, and direct hl3 coutwils and dictate his melt sores ?—wlet Intl thew OJAI:ITT down.lltai bubjvels by force ofarms? Follies:n(1 is ill the clutins of the Fivneh. If the , rne tench Niitrister ;Led Contrimittling Otheac eiu ,wa ~„r . a way goes the proclamation 00 matt" what tatro;: it,, Lido the fire. It is not intmateriel thtm to remark, that this inanifesto agai I,i ' el;w'st'.iltti tu' . e bloVernMentri, 'MO ttgti tuit carry and all chatiof i n t h e ex i s ti u g Spani p s e p h de.spotiem hand, walksl u t 11i the s of' forth from a (,:.(bind.binet which is but a 1 PM /We, and decrees tint ate 'of a once independent country,: which lois now no lawgiverif but they bayo nets tlovernmebayonetsCharlesWe tin not funitn'stond how the wesentitive out receive without %riming this otturit on "1 , c 011,; otions, nor how, when such principles are p v i r t ,, n e under French .4(01144, treat: authority can much permitted to possess in full Sovereignty the Sp ti ! in mid to men a ce by ;Li arall.o the Independent existence in ., Portugal.— .Ritf, The'expthtures which have recently taken phiee through medeli of the' Connui , ,:sinnvoi a Inquiry, as to the conduct "ft Praetire »t :mow of th, Revenue Munk, must be a mutt r f.of extreme n 0 , ,, to the Goyermuent, and of nn' little sutrixe to thi , ionthe. At, fur 88 we elm Judge from 'the" doottitentS e, oviduct Or di2se Commibuinnerx y • d se ems to ova have been accompanied by a degree of knowledge, - promp. titude, and fearlessness—which latter quality, especially, hoWever unacceptable it may be to those on whom their censure lightS, will be received, as it ought to be, by the public, with gratitude and approbation. It strikes one, however, as rather extraordinary that heads of the departments which these Commissioners 'have been inves tigating, should require the kind of timidity and routing out whigh they are now receiving. There is searilily en abuse mentioned by these gentlemen , which it was not in the power, and which it wits not the bounden duty of the heads of these different Boards themselves :to have cor rected. When persons laying claim' to the chmacter of gentlemen, some of them too persons of rank and family, tire Owed in situations of public trust, it is to be pre annu that they will be alive to the nature and importance of the duties which they undertake, and that, above all, they will stimulate those who are placed , under them, by their own example, to act faithfully anti honestly by the public. We are to tell. these gentlemen that We see no moral difference between the man who ribs the public of his time, and he who robs another of his purse, we dare say they would think us perfect Galls and Hottentots but we suspect that there are those among the public who will not think our 'notions, however antiquated, at. all ab surd. But where, after all, is the root of the evil ? It is to be found, for the most part, in the sort of persons Who receive the majority of these appointments, and the sort of patronage which leads to them. Let any man who has leisure take up the Red Book, and he will readily perceive the overbearing Parliamentary infltienee which rules the aseendant in these matters. To say nothing of the incom petence of some of the persons who obtain situations of high public trust, many of them feel, when they are ap , pointed, no tie of gratitude or duty towards the Govern went or the, public, on' whom they consider thertiselveti quartered, for the services, past, present, and to come, of others. We rejoice, however, to see that a spirit of re form is afloat, which must. teach l'hese people and , their successors (maid very speedy sneeessors we should think some of them, at least, must have) better things. The Go , vernment will learn how its patronage is thrown away and its diameter compromised by those who ought, to lie among the first to do honour to the one and uphold the other. The labours of these Cominissioners are valuable, not only for What they do and what they correct, but for the evils they will prevent. Many who have been' lolling in security behind the curtain of official abuse will be put upon their guard when they find that curtain so liable 'to be thrown open by the unceremonious hands of Mr. Wal lace and his coadjutors.--4,foriiiiig Herald. Too great an indifference has at all times been shown in the appointment of the inferior parts of the Magistracy, In the country it is usual to put every man of rank and fortune into the Commission of the Peace, leaving it . tohis own discretion, by taking out his dedimns, to act or not as each individual may' see proper. aver these nominations, it, is true, the Great Seal has a controul; but as the Chan. cellor'ean of course he but partially acquainted with the gentlemen in all the counties, the appointments rest, for the most part, with the different Lords Lieutenant. Then come the Corporation Juatidea, who arc distributed, more or lesa, all over the kingdom, from the Lord Mayor of London, down to the different Mayors, Bailiffs, and Bur gesses, and " approved men," and those precious anoma lies in our Constitution„the various rotten boroughs. These latter persons have been, for the most part, wholly unfit to perform. the important duties of the Magistracy, and a necessity therefore has arisen for giving the County Magistrates a co-ordinate jurisdiction with them, so that there is a prospect of, in time, seeing this corrupt and vii- lainous system of the old borough Justices. rendered inert, if not entirely done away. But ignorant, and therefore mischievous, as these hitter have always in a great measure been, they were far exceeded in had dualities by the trading justice's of the metropolis; and those who ran remember the days o f Mr. justice Hyde and others of the `.:e Inc• idiot, must, readily admit that few greater improvements have taken place in the administodion of justice than the eatablitthment of the present system of police, defective/ as it is,' over 'one in which justice was openly bought and sold; and in which the administrators of it were as corrup and in many respects mat dishonest, ati those over' whoni their authority was executed. Strange, however, to say, this change, than which none could be more evidently IIP. cesSary, was warmly opposed in Parliament; and it l'e quireil all the weight' of Administration and the parlia mentary tact of Mr. DundaS, afterwards Lord Melville, to carry his Bill through the House of Commons, opposed as it was by the witand'aarcasm of Sheridan, and the Con, stitutional fears or :Mr. FOx and his party, backed by many of the country gentlemen. Thus warmly opposed, i 4 be came cramped and fettered lit its outset; and it. has only been by degrees that its utility has become apparent, : and Parliament. induced to give it a more enlarged and liberal sanction. In most of the appointments to the Magistracy too, a gradual and Marked improvement. has taken place, Whether very young Men of ardent temperaments and not very well-regulated morals are likely to make very good Magistrates, may, we suppose be a question—but Mrn. Peel, who, it is evident, has the purifying and correcting of the whole judicial . system very much at heart, will readily see, and set right any thing that, may be amiss, in these respects. We do not expect more from human 1111.- ture than it is capable of; but surely it is desirable. that those on whom the correction of the faults and vices of the community devolves, should be theMselves possessed of sober, well-regulated minds, and not openly addicted to illy of the vices they are every day called upon to punislL To form a thoreughly good Magistrate requires a union of qualities rarely to be met with in the common run of mans: ki n d. We speak riot of that degree of legal knowledge which 1103 OM wiseby become indispensable in these per.. anus, but of those qualities of the heart and' understanding which ',combine feeling wits firmness, end a tendernes s towards misfortune witli the calni.mid temperate correetioti of vice. These, and the qualities Connected with u hem s are those which have not been hitherto (pike so much advert ed to as could' be wished. The Press, however, is in the course of supplying and correcting what is' deficient ; and though in its efforts' it may meet with some' occasional in terruption '(for to bear correction calmly requires more good sense than most men possess), there is no doubt, but that it will, in the end, achieve the object of putting all public functionaries, its well as those who appoint them, more uport their guard than they have always hitherto been.— Extract of a letter, dated Bogota, June 19:—. We had on the 17th instant, between 40 minutes after 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening, two great shocks of an eartinivake. he second, in particular, was severe and torrib e, and wu are all here Mill in great consternation. Most of the principal buildings in this city Live, suf fered very severely. If the houses in this eltY "'erel" in general imilt Much stronger than those in Caraccas, Only would n o doubt have all been destroyed. it is feared that Other parts of Colombia will ha,ve ' , mitered severely. Although affairs in Caraccas tom t t, „ ' believe that w wort t 1 1 1 ) a a n d we y oT i ( d ; I t ; firstral a Pr i :v e i t i l l d l e l ‘ol ; succeed, and that tranquillity will be re established. News frorn Bolivar is very anxiiotody looked f or , in consequence of these very iiiipieaslint events; and it i m generally believed that whenever be iil itnritc! fete,' 1 deserve. -r)VeerreS he-restored e° publicn e theiran time, Government is tatting finch Measures as the emergency iiihtir All accounts fron► the hop distrietB concur in repre senting the present crop :Li one of the very finelit that ever grew. The elect or the great productiveness of thk y ,,, a r't; growth has completely destroyed for tl►c pre santAl id es Of speculation in the dealer. Old hops are down at least 70 per cent POLICE lI,ITELLI.CTEI4CE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The LORI) MAYOR gave strict 'injunc tions to the City Marshals to be vigilant in watching Bartholomew Fair, which commences on Saturday. He particularly requested that they Would see tbat•all the public-houses were closed at a rea sonable hour, and that the show-people should not he allowed to, admit persons after eleven o'clock. His Lordship maid he should particularly look after the Marshals, to see that they -did their duty; and he expected that the Marshals would cloSely watch the subor dinate officers ) , and tee that they did their duty also. His Lordship could not help noticing a most extraordinary placard that it had been customary to issue, signed by the Town-clerk of the City, in which it was stated that no shows, plays, interludes, &c., should he permitted in the fair. Now nothing could he more absurd than the issuing of each a notice ; because it was known to all the world that such things were permitted; and as the Chief Magis trate of the City scent himself to proclaim the Fair, he could not help seeing that they were so permitted. He had therefore di rected this year that a notice so absurd, and at variance with truth, should be discontinued, and he was glad to find that his directions had been attended to. GUILDHALL—Margaret Lantan, a young female from the sister isle, Was charged, hefore,Mr. Alderman Brown, with steal ing 14 ivory-handled razors, three silver pencil-cases, and six silver thimbles. . . . W►n. Brock, shoprean to Mr. Eases, a pawnbroker in Alders gate-street, stated that the prisoner came to their shop on Monday morning, wishing to pledge the razors for 1/.. She said they be longed to her master, John Castle, of No. 10, Love-lane, Hol born, a hawker. Suspecting from the quality of the razors, and from the name upon them, " Rigge, Cheapside," that they hail been stolen, he called in Curtis, One of the Bow street patrol, who happened to be upon the spot, who found the pencil-cases and thimbles in a basket she *Tied in her band, and to whom she confea.ed that she was not th► person she had represented, her self to he, but the servant of Mr. Rigge, the pertUmer •in Cheapside. Mr. Rigge Said' the young woman had wily been i n h i s service about three weeks. He hail a most unexceptionable character with her, but from very poor people ; nod but for ...the - praise•- worthy vigilance of • the pawnbroker, he should probably never have discovered the robbery. He identified the property, The prisoner, who seemed little affected at her situation, of fered no defence. • Air. Alderman liaowN committed her for trial, remarking that it waa lamentable that these r,ervantis; who.were boarded in the house, did not perceive that they were better oft than moat of the other CILUISeIi of labouring Poor. HATTON-GA RDEN.---Yeiterday Caroline FieiaMin, the yowl", woman who has been in custody for some time, on sus picion of robbing her master of a considerable sum of money, under went another examination, before ------ ROGEIth, Esq. Mr. Brooks, the prosecutor, stated that he had not been able to trace the 50/. Bank-note since the last examination, but he stopped payment of it at the Bank, *here he was informed that all the notes of the same date and amount were paid in, except the one he had been robbed of. He had lately learned other circumstances which strengthened his suspicion of the pri soner ; he was intbrmed that a female named Stanley, *itb whom the prisoner lodged, had some time ago, exchanged several Si. notes at the house of a Mr. Bradley, a pawnbroker, where she had purchaied half adozen silver spoons, although her hitshand was only in the receipt of a pound a-week; it would also he'prOved that a coral necklace, found in the prisoner's box, was the .property of a tradesmau, her former master. Mr. Bradley, the pawnbroker, stated, that the woman named Stanley had lately exchanged several 51. notes at his shop, and on one day not less than three of the above, with which she re deemed some prOperty, and bought a half-dozen of silver spoons ; hut he had been called to give an account of the matter so stidilen -Iy, that it was impossible for hint to render an exact account of the transaction. Mr. Fergusson, of Brick-lane, Spitalficlds, stated that the pri soner lived servant in his family about twelve months ago ; as soon as she went away a coral necklace, which one, of the childten wore, was missed, and ham never been seen since, till it was found, a few days ago, in the prisoner's box, by Kirby, the officer. The witness, in answer to a question from 11/Ir. Humphrys, as solicitor for the prisoner, said that he would swear that the neck -1...ce produced was his property. Mary Stanley, when sworn, maid that *he never paid snore than 00, :,/. note at Ms. litiulley'3 'hop, and that wasi in order to re.. d ewe property, about three weeks ago. Mr.ltumphrys submitted tisk the case could not be carried fur then with respect to the money paid by Mary Stanley, unless it could be proved that it was the produce of the 501. note above referred to. Mr. Brooks begged the Magistrate to remand the prisoner for another week, as he hoped in that time to be able to trace the note. Mr. Humphrys objected to so long a period, as the prisoner bid already been remanded several times. it was agreed that the prisoner should be brought up again on Tuesday, and Stanley was 'ordered to enter into his own 'Swop . - nizance for his appearance and that of his wife at the next ex. 7 antination. Marg Wright, s female of most wretched appearance,' was charged with being found in the chambers Jay; i 7 ,84 1, of No, A, Gray's-inn-place, under suspieioue eircumstaneec Mr. Jay stated : that on going into an outer room of his cham bers, about ten o'clock that morning, be discovered the prisoner, who was unable to give a satisfactory account of herself. He therefore gave her in. charge to the porter, who immediately re cognised her as a person who was in the habit of lurking about the inn. Witness bad been lately plundered of considerable pro perty, and about six years ago some one entered his chambers in a similar way, and carried off from two to three hundred pounds in cash. , • The prisoner in her defence, said that fin►ling herself very tin. , well, she went into Mr. Jay's chambers to rent herself until she becanie better. Mr. Rot:vas ordered the prisoner to find bail, and said she was lucky iu not being sent to the House of Omection for 3 months. MAItYLERONE-OFFIOE—On Wednesday night, Mr. Henry Cox, of No. 6, Homer-stilet, was brought before Mr. ItAWLINSON and Mr. BROUCiIITON, at this office, by Buekridge, the officer, charged with having attempted to poison Sarah Cox, his wife, and Mary Anne Croker, a young lady visiting at their house. Irefere any evidence was taken, Mr. Ittwurrsorr said to Mr. Cot; have you any friend to assist or attvise you? He replied he had no friend in London. Mr. llsWurrsorr.—',The charge against you is of a very iwerione nature; it places your . life in' jeopardy, and I should wish yiet to have every opportunity to ensurer or ‘spel it. The defendant again said he hed no friend who could assist hint ; he was innocent, and therefore ready to Meet the charge. Mr. Ha WUNSON assured him, he would let nothing escape his observation which might appear in his.favour, and, he- sincerely hoped he might be found innocent of the charge. Mrs. Goa deposed, that she was married to the defendant last January ; she had known him 25 years; his brother married her Sister 30 years ego; she could not exactly, say she was a widow belOre Mr. (~%,:t married, her, for blir . bitti been married to a. 0;010 who lied another wife; she list alife•interest in one house, until the expitation of the lease, awl she hue ; three other houses, which; at her decease will become the property of her heehaw! ; she.. also pollbegieli Walley And furniture,; her husband, before. be married her, was aplumber and glazier et Kidderminster (they now are nut of business); h* represented himself to he worth 1,0001., but in that he deceived, her ; hi s property only amounted to 260/. ; the first week after they trent marr i e d, he proposed to have th e leases !ransfetred into Ills ow n wine, and has owned since, that be tiorti"d her for her l'loperty; he, Ino behaved so ill to her, that her health is impaired, and, ',oder the advice .of . Dr. Burwell, of Gulden -situate, sh t i betiallt abbot a week ago, to take bark in p ort wine; h e r hushtuul kne w she t oo k it, once a day, generally eb ou t e l eve n o'clock; it stood on A shelf in the kitchen. On Monday night her husband asked bet to taste it, and she took it on Tuesday' as tomel... Yesterday morning at hteakfast she told him she really could not live with .him, as h er health was so injured by fretting, coniequenee of his'threata and bad language. She told him he had deceived c her in th e tint inst an ce, brnot bringing the money,' he promised ; but if h e would leave her , he should have as much as he brought— lie said, if lieleft her be would have m ore t h an that. Ile said, efterw er d s , •he would uni t I .eave at all as long as there was a penny in the, house, Mr. RAis LIMOS asked her, whitt she meant by threats and bad language!. Mrs. elm—lie if he had a wife like one of my lodgers, tliteketvaoull,der , sons life away." n):::eryzik:llo;ittwiliteatuyitioulatere Ith sp e e a a n k : ins o f? you speak as cool awl deliberate as if it ,was nothing to I said, "Y ou had Jotter ,enve tne. Ileßaid no, he wo u ld po i son Jn P ,lf I dill not live with him, I should not liv e with any one Lust Saturday, h e said h e would part, hat lie Would take „ y et ) , good care before he dill part, that lie would do something ou Thutvlay last, I had a WOlllllll to Wash ; I . looked ire a clipboard for an empty bottle, to send for sornigin in a corner of th e cupboard, where seldom look, I (owe' a paper parcel. said to Mary Ann m Anne (the y oung lady be , e - inentionedb here . ; a ra p er --. 6 you khoW any t hi ng Of i t ? She mild, ; we ta"e" ita cements ; she laid it was oxalic acid ; her Whet- bad once de. sired bar to taste it thai she might know it from salts, and this was the same. ~.We took a piece before we returned it to the cupboard, and sent it to a chymist in Crawford -street, for we sus pected something wrong. After breakfast this morning I went up stairs into the parlour, and remained three quarters of en hour; my husband came up afterwards, mull went down ; we did not 'eak to each other. Mary Anne asked me it 1 had looked into the cupboard ? I said, no ; I am such a had climber, I am a f ra id to get upon a chair. Mary Anne then examined the cupboard, and the paper parcel was gone; Mary Anne lighted a candle, but we could not find it any where. - I then said we musthe careful what we take. I examined the port wine and bark ; it was dif ferent. I took # little, and it made my throat smart. Mr. RAWLINSON.—IS it not odd you should swallow some when you suspected poison to be in it? Mrs. took but little in my mouth. She further 6tated, that - Mary Anne lived bar-maid with her when formerly she kept a public-house, and her husband did not like her living with her now. Mr. RAWLINSON asked if her husband could not have admini stered the poison in another way, and she replied, that her medi cine was the only thing of which he slid not himself partake.— Mary Anne drank nothing but water. A jug, containing less than s quart, was always kept in the front area upon the stones to be cool; we examined the water, and that also had some of the acid in it ; we took some of the wine and some of the water, in sepa rate bottles, to a chymist in Crawford-street, to be analyzed, and be sent us to Mr Garden, in Oxford -street; I have seen him this evening; he says he has no doubt each contained oxidic acid, and he will attend here if sent for. Mr. RAWLINSON (to Mr. Cox.)—Have <you any questions to put to .your. wife? Mr. Cox.—l do not know what to say; lam as innocent a. the child in the womb. Mr. RAWPINSON.—It is easy to say you are innocent, but why not ask some questions to throw light upon the subject? if you can only answer the charge by a mere denial, I cannot ,part with you; I must retain you, and have the evidence of the chymist. _ . Mr.. Cox said, the differences between him and his wife were in consequence of her keeping the girl (Mary Anne), and when he remonstrated, his wife told hint she was eating and drinking nothing of his. Mrs. Cox--It is my property which supports her, sod I keep her hecauie I have occasion for her services. • Mary Anne Croker lived formerly with Mrs. Cox, as barmaid ; she left her three days before she was married, in January last, and went to a situation in Carnaby-market, but. returned seven weeks afterwards, at Mrs. Cox's t equest ; Mr. and Mrs. Cox lived comfortably, having a few Words at times, until Mr. Cox used the expression respecting the lodger ; that appeared to make Mrs. Cox very unhappy ; since that they have quarrelled frequently ; Mrs. Cox threatened to leave him ; he also laid he would leave her, but he would take d—d good care to do so►nething first; and from what passed respecting the lodger, she suspected he meant by the expresiion that he would poison her. She then gave evi dence as to finding the paper of oxalic acid, and the subsequent difference of taste in the bark wine, and in the water, the latter of which was turned white similar to milk. She knew oxalic acid was used for cleaning bouts. Mr. Cox wears top-boots with painted tops, which only ►:quire washing ; she thought Mr. Cox wanted to get rid of her, that she might not be a witness against him, and she believed he intended to poison her. Mr. RAAVIII4SON (to Mr. Cox.)—Are you prepared with any bail ? Mr. Cox-,-1, have no friend or acquaintance in London ;1 do not go out to associate with any body. .• Mr. ItawuNsori—,-This is a very serious charge. If you can', not find bail, .1 must commit you ; you shall go to the watchhouse, instead of going to prison, if you prefer it. • . Cox 7--1 am obliged to you, lair; lam innocent. . Mr. RawLiNso N —lt is for you to show how ,the parcel con taining the 'oxalic acid rams into the cupboard. Mr. Cox—l never brought a parcel into the house in my life, nor did I say I would kill her, if I had a wile like the lodger; 1 only said I would give her a d-s-d good hiding. . Mrs, .Cox again declared that the former expression was used. The oxalic acid was screwed up in a coarse sugar paper, without any mark of, poison, &c. ; there must have been inure than an ounce. A gentleman, who accompanied Mr. Cox to the office, said that he earns very willingly, although he might have absconded. The ►bine gentleman said to Mr. Cox, a If you go to the watchhouse, you can have a Wit ;" to which he replied, " I am a prisoner, and I shall he content with prisouer'm fare." Yesterday, at two o'clock, Mr. Henry Cox .was brought up from the watchhouse, and again placed at the bar. Mr. RawuNsox asked him, if he had any friend to assist him in his defence. He said no, for he was a stranger, having been but eight months in London. Peter Squires, an. assistant to Mr. Garden, the chymist, of Oxford-street, stated that he had examined, in the usual way, the wine and the water brought to him by Airs. Cox and Mies Croker, and he firmly believed that there was oxalic acid in both he !vari.tiot prepared to say in what quantity, as it would take another day to perfect the analyzation. .Miss Croker asked Mr. Squires whether it did not requite warm water. to dissolve oxalic acid ? Mr. Squires replied, that it certainly would dissolve quicker in warm water, but in the course of an hour it w o uld al so b e di e . solved in cold. MisS Croker (to Mr. 12awlinson.)—You last night, Sir, asked Mrs. Cox whether it was not PosOble for me to have put the oxalic acid into the wine, and into the water, and, although I acknowledge that the question was very proper on your part, some persons have misunderstood its intention, and have expressed si opinion that I really did do it; now, Sir, I can prove to the contrary; I went up into the parlour with Mr. Cox, and at the time we left the kitchen, the water in the kettle was cold, I was not out of her sight, and when we examined the liquids, the wine was warm, and the water was warm, there had evidently been warm water put into theM, and it was impossible I could have done it, Mr. Ilawiafrsox said he WAS aOrry any eilmpieion had attache4 to her, for un kis. part h e f e l t satisfied she had no thi ng to d o with it. Mr. Cox declared himself innocent : he said lie had .never brought any thing of the kind into the houie excepting an ounce o f salts, which he bought of a respectable person, whom he could 'lams : he again solemnly declared himself innocent of the charge. Mr. Rawmtison.—l cannot again send you to the watehhouse; I must now semi you to prison tm another examination, and, ac cording to t e view we now take of the matter, you must then be comtnitted to Newgate for. trial. Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Griffith were on the bench with Mr. itawlineon. THAMES POLICE-OFFICE.—Captain John Ross, alias Berrill, alias Fox, alias Rose, viAm put to the bar, charged with divers acts of swindling, committed on the publicans and victual lers of Wapping and its vicinity. The prisoner was brought up from the watch-home on Tuesday morning, charged by a publi can with obtaining eleven pennyworth of gin and water, without haVing the means of paying for. it. ..., The first witness was William Hall, the keeper of a respectable inn, at Shiulwell, who stated that about eighteen months ago the prisoner came and stopped at his house, and represented himself to be the Captain of the Albion, -which, on inquiry, be loom! not to he the case, and after contracting-a debt of 11. 19s. he dis appeared, at the hatne time leaving some charts behind . him. About six months ago he by chance met him, and upbraided him with his conduct, and told him he, should-sell the charts for the amoudt of itiornioney. The prisoner requested he would not.do se,- as they were worth SOL, and he would shortly call and re lease them. ' He never.heard•of the prisoner from that day u n til he heard o f hi s b e i ng i n custo d y . The next c h arge Wu that of Thomas Wallace, who keeps the White Bear in- Rateliff.highway, who stated, that about the I h t h b e , Captain Bend!, of the Albion, accommodate wmhaio)lykeeiii:eatiirsehavfoer yhoini:, not got beds? ean,:Ceryeotalfraid of July, the prisoner called at his house and requested lodging ; he' 'represented' kimself to Witness told him that he had no lodging. lie then called for a glass of porter, and while he was drinking it,. the witness's niece, said, ~ He aeons to be a very gentle manly him ?" and at her persulurion he did so; and on the next morning he-got up early; peal for his bed, and went away. . However, in a few days subsequently, he called about eight o'clock in the even .to admit the t o h n e - d et B lie t r u e r v il L Y Z d l sa ad id m t i o rey 'i o tn e e r n rarti l o i ti, but will you , give -- - iv MI the Dock , al l day from on board the A fon, a • . gates being shut, I could no t get on board. If you like, I shall pay 3, to • OU night or ma a bet to-night? l.have been landing su g a rsgnesof. i n the • morning," . 11e then drank six water, and while drinking . it, pressed witness to come on ' I e th en gin - 'and hoard the Albion. I went to bed, and witness was o bliged to go to a funeral in the ' morning . _ haying it was f or his boy . , to w h om he 'is the prisoner did not iind , theriendeavoured to bur get tip until after twelve Welatiti. was-in s w cirl 6s ih f e ll bs un bi h t is d ni" lii e v , init Is. each every Sunday, and said, not having information, Witness, su sp ec ti n g she to , noc 1 ar, Jeremy Ditkiler would), Orange about hint, h for e Only asked her bad 1 ( -all was not right, went t he'following . Morning on board the Al- Uon, and there saw Captain Berri% who told him he knew no• thing of the prisoner. Mr. BALLANTINE asked what he had to say for himself? The prisoner said it was distress and want of employinent, and hoped Mr. Ballantine would overlook the case. Mr. BALLANTINR observed, that he felt it his duty to send him . to the House of Correction for t,ix weeks. -- - The prisoner was then removed. UNION-HALL.—Mrs. Allen, a respectably•attired latly, about thirty years of age, and a Mr. Abbott, were yesterday in attendance before M. SwABET, F,sq., to answer a charge of a ... sault, brought against them by Mr. WlCinnah, a tea-dealer, Of Lambeth. The complainant stated, that Mrs. Allen had been a customer of his some time, and was indebted to him for articles which he had furnished. Being anxious to have the account settled, he went to her residence a few evenings ago, requesting his momi, when the assault which he was about to detail, took place. On Mri. Allen being desired by bim to close the account, she flew at him (to use his own words) like a tigress, tore him by the hair of his head intethe middle of the room, and called for assistance. Presently Mr. Abbott appeared, struck hint, and finally pushed him out of the house. Mre. Allen, in a very mild tone of voice, declared that she did not raise her hand against the complainant, and she denied owing hiM one farthing for goods. True it' was, she said, that she had been a customer, but all communication of that sort bad ceased some time, and when the complainant entered her house, he conducted himself in so ungentlemanly a manner, that she was obliged to call for assistance to expel him. Abbott then proceeded to state, that on entering the apart ment he learnt that Mrs. Allen had been roughly treated, and that he certainly did push the complainant out of doors. Mr. SWAURY told the complainant, that if money was due to him from one of the defendants, he must pi*eed, in a regular manner, by application to a Court of Requests, provided the sum was small, and not enter a house to demand it in a violent manner. The Lomplainent said that he did ask civilly for the debt. Mrs. Allen—You came boldly into my parlour, in which I was sitting at work, seated, yourself on the table, and declared that you would not quit the house until you rervived some money. told you then, and I repeat it, that I tun not indebted to you a farthing. Complainant—Your Woiship, she does owe me money. The Magistrate said that he should discharge the defendants, and leave the complainant, if he 'thought proper, to take his as sault case to the Sessions. The oorripleinant ,then,proceeded to state something about Mr. Abbott and Mrs.. Allen being on friendly terms, which the Magis trate checked, by saying that he bad already disposed of the exile. As soon the office was cleared of. the parties in the last case, it was filled by a set of witnesses in another assault case, in which another feMale was charged as the aggressor. This was, how ever, a public-house broil, and may he thus shortly detailed :-- A few evenings back Alt-. NVilliam Brett, who was himself a publican, was singing an enjoying himself at a public-house in Camberwell, kept by Mrs. Elizabeth Lenin, the female eitia si whom the assault-warrant was issued, when he was suddenly at tacked by her, and had a candlestick thrown at his head, whir l ' gave him some pain. In defence of her conduct, Mrs. Lunn said that the hour wias waxing late, and being anxious that her house` should be closed by the prescribed : time, she uttered the, apartment in ,which Mr. Brett and' his friends were regaling themselves, representing that it was time for them to depart. Mr. Brett instantly &dar e '', that he would sing two songs more—viz. " Rule Britannia and " God save the King." A discussion then took place, whi ch terminated in some ale being spilt, and the candlestick being thrown accidentally at Mr.' Brett. 'The Magistrate dismissed the charge, leaving it at the dis cretion of Mr. Brett whether he would or not take the case to the Sessions. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, TUZSDAY, Szrr, 5- • (M the Court of Commiaaioners.) H. .1. B. tie Mush!, Bank-buildings, merchant W. J. Baker, St. John-street, Clakenwell, orange-merchant 12 J. Barton, High Wycombe, paper-inaker W. Benham, Brighton, , builder L. Hire, Pinners-conrt, Broad-otrert, merchant ......... I S. Cartwright,' Dover-road, Southwark, coal-merchant lO A. Clarkson, Thatchiun, irtakeeper ••i ll T. Dobson, jun., Fitinivara inn, money-serivener ll W.,Honeysett, Dalston, builder..... ll Latham and Parry, Devonshire-square, merchants ll Levin and Josephs, Nlausell-street, merchants H. Meeski, St. James's-square, merch a nt s .... _ _ _ ... W. Rogers, Lad-lane, silk-warehouseman J. Shakeahaft, Widegate-st., Biahopagate, earthenwire dealer ti Smith and Percher, Hatton garden, tailors...—. C. Stewart, Old Broad-street, merchant. Stoddard and Nash, Broadway, Westminster, ironmongell 11 COUNTRY DIARY, SEPT. b. 11. Braddock, Portwood, Brinnington, at the Star, Manchester 9 P. Buck, Knaresborough—Nlessrs.. Powell's Office, Kowa $ borotagh W. . I..l C . h p a r d a wck nsn i ei s d n ,n d i Co rm . in O gi l la tlha in t_n— Ro W yai llit H el o s t H el, o ß te ir l, m llf in a g n h ch am est . e . r . Gallemore and Feaster, Ardwick—Star, Manchester B. Haifa; Gutter-lane, London_Rampant Horse, Norwich T. Harpur Ystradgunlais, Breconehire--Public Homes , 'll Swansea Holiday and Co., Preston—Office of Troughton and Co id Preston J. Oliver, Manchester—Star, ALtochester F. W. Thies, Liverpool—Golden Lien, Liverpool .... . Turner and Gough, Salford—Star, Manchester W. Turton, West Bromwich,-.lerningham. Anna, ShiNuall !! T. Wingfield, Bolton-le-Moors--Star. Manchester ...... --- Mr. W. Clarke, who has distinguished himsellr much by his exertions in exposi ng t h e f rau ds slid 1 " 5.* management in various jquit-stock companies, is re . garded by some of them with so muc h t e rror, 0 ° 1: one instance _a refusal has been given to transfer Cel ia shares which had been `purchased f or him, i' d° name, in the usual manner. There are several fl t L a delinquencies, .we hear, about to see the light, Ar t at company which has made so ridiculous an attemP A t h e the exclusion of a parti c ula r i n di v id ua l, h as crest e bar . suspicion.at least that it i s a b out to a dd to t he tini tet , Circulars have rec en tly b een i ssue d f rom the inZ r . n . ment-office, by the clerk a t th e S e s s i ons -h ou s e , well green, which . announce . approaching se l e ; is likely to be an extrem e ly busy one, front the nW P „I, of prisoners who have alr ea dy been c o mmitted , fo r e In anticipation of this result, it is now props b l n t se Clerk of IndictMent s t o atten d at the Se;siarls. Ivor) two days (F r id ay a nd Saturday), h nr September, from ten o'clock in the rowing h e four in the afternoon each day. Instructions for the taking .out of indictments will then be received bY. so chief clerk, for the, purpose and to enable the persi,r s indicting to be in readiness to come before the 6rand Jury on the morning Of Monday, Sept. 11 . the tith and 'tilt BIRTHS. On the SOth ult., at South Parade, attire*, the I ' l4 F. Pigot, Esq., of the Middle Temple, of .a daughter. Ibt , ,On the 31 a t ti l t ., t h e w if e o f Mr. George Gunni 1111 r . rough-street, o f a daughter. ARRI.D. , .„ y ta , of At Bath, Henry, ekiest lH moo o f / S i r R. B a eding6rfl , "."--- 4 °lburgh HAII , I \r° , folk, to fargaret, only daughter of Ellosr p as t or) , Esq., of Appleton, in the same (*linty. ~,,,, c i. On the Myth ult., at Forilliain, near Colchester , the a" — . .d' fleatheote, One of the Clutplaius of Trinity College, Cernbriair Ecaurli(illneyx Smith, i i l t d h e , r s us , to Anna, second daughter of the Rev. M. Dodd, Berta of Fer . h t ,lieV• V r e t :ll o d i em ßed m of ir t u be p l ar at ic e , C: On the SOth ult., at All Souls' Church, Maryleholeo ''''" t ley • Hall, Yorkshire, to Afario. Eliiiilotte eldest daughter of 7, o f Allet. Ou the 28th. • w eat., at Childwa ll , Win. Fletcher:F. l l ., , r . id s . ton, to Mary eldest daughter of Al B Eon ofi lids. . , - - __--, Hl:rts.nri Childers, of Cs,ocr DIED. On the I,sth ult. Mn. 13 1 - widow of the lett • n u ,n $ nue ut in, of her r n i 'afitheesl.2.,l'stofußlt.u,gba);,SihnuotWealr"sw-hici4ll3,hiKent Elisabeth, tali` o f r the late depend Sir Thomas Illomefield, Bart., in the OW Ye— Printed N o p ft wishoot by M. YOUNG, at the Pee 0011°1' Pro. 112, Siren&